Crimea budget sufficient to finance referendum. - speaker/Ukraine 'blocks accounts of Crimea state treasury'

Speaker of the Crimean legislature Vladimir Konstantinov said the Crimean budget has sufficient resources to finance the referendum on Crimea's status set for March 16.
"The estimate has been detailed and the funding will be provided," he told the press on Sunday. Exactly how much will be spent on the referendum will be determined on Monday, he said. A referendum will be held in Crimea and in Sevastopol on March 16.

The ballot papers will have a standard form, and the questions will be printed in the Russian, Ukrainian and Crimean-Tatar languages.

Two questions will be asked: "Are you in favor of Crimea reuniting with the Russian Federation as a constituent member? Are you in favor of restoring the application of Crimea's 1992 constitution and for Crimea's status as part of Ukraine."

Voice of Russia, Interfax
 http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_09/Crimea-budget-sufficient-to-finance-referendum-speaker-1409/
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• Ukraine 'blocks accounts of Crimea state treasury' 

Crimean Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Temirgaliyev said Sunday that the administration in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, had blocked Crimea's financial accounts and the electronic systems of the Crimean State Treasury. 

"We have just received information that Ukraine has blocked the entire system of the Crimean section of the State Treasury, all accounts," Temirgaliyev told the Russian Interfax agency. 

But the deputy prime minister said the action would not affect the payment of wages and pensions and officials in Crimea would not allow any catastrophe there. "People will not be left without pensions and wages in any case," he said. "The situation is under control."............................http://www.ellanodikis.net/2014/03/ukraine-blocks-accounts-of-crimea-state.html
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